2005 Founding Partners

Dr. Anna Rubbo
Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney

Dr. Elliott Sclar
Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Development (CSUD), Earth Institute
Professor of Planning, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia University

Dr. Pietro Garau
Director, Urban Research Centre for the Developing Countries (Centro PVS) – DIPTU, Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome La Sapienza

Dr. Gabriella Carolini
Graduate Student in Planning, Columbia University

Global Studio grew out of the work of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers (2002-2004) as a response to the critique that design and planning professionals are not well equipped to meet the challenges of improving the lives of the urban poor, which today number around one billion. Global Studio founding partners were members of the Task Force of which Elliott Sclar and Pietro Garau were co-chairs.

Garau, P., Sclar, E., and Carolini, G. (lead authors). (2005)
A Home in the City – The Report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force
on Improving the Lives of Slum Dwellers
Earthscan: London.

Global Studio Program Managment 2005-12

Anna Rubbo, Convenor
Josh Morrin, Project Manager, 2005
Jennifer van den Bussche , Project Manager , 2007-09, 2012
Barnaby Bennett, Assistant Project Manager, 2009
Krishna Shrestha, Co-convenor, 2012